Holmes told reporters at a flag football tournament Saturday that he still wasn’t ready to declare himself ready for the opener after last year’s Lisfranc injury.

“I don’t have a target date,” he said, via Seth Walder of the New York Daily News. “I don’t want to do anything to jeopardize myself being ready for the season.”

Most of Holmes’ running has been of the non-weight-bearing variety on a treadmill, and he has only done limited football-related running for trainers.

“It’s just getting back into the swing of walking and running without any pains from having scar tissue build up around the injury,” he said. “It’s really difficult to learn how to walk again. To do so much balance work, you don’t realize what you have until it’s gone. To lose a ligament and have separation in your joints, have screws placed in.”

That makes Holmes a likely candidate for the active-PUP list to start camp, which would allow him to resume practice as soon as he’s ready.

The Jets need him back in the worst way, as their lack of certainty at quarterback is compounded by a lack of weapons on offense.

I hope he’s not learning how to walk now, I hope he’s talking in past tense. Sure sounds like he won’t be ready for the start of the season. It’s damn near August, get it together Holmes! If this isn’t a sign the Jets need a veteran WR, idk what is. I say Brandon Lloyd.

nflwatcher says:Jul 20, 2013 3:31 PM

He’s just going to pay tribute to LT2 and ride the stationary bike all pre-season.

Wouldn’t have been any better if he was ready to go. In fact, I would go so far as to say if he he had been, he probably would have hastened Sanchize’s trip to the waiver wire. His antics+Rex’s antics+Tannenbaums brain locked moves = at least another 44 yrs before Fireman Ed gets to do his dorky dance with a Ring and The Lombardi on the line